1-60 Leveling Guide

Leveling 1-60 is a big deal, even now
that the Burning crusade has been released for some time. It's during these levels that you will experience the majority of WoW's content and get
to know your class. However, for those of us on our second playthrough it isn't so thrilling.

In fact, you'd probably rather skip right to level 70 and miss out
the grinding. While that isn't possible you can cut your leveling times by over 60% if you use the right guide.

Leveling 1-60, How long should it take?

4days and 20hours. That's the fastest time I'd ever seen
before patch 2.4 (2.4 has increased leveling rates by about 25%). The insane speed leveler was Joana, who's actually a guy. A lot of people
claimed that he was a liar and had simply edited the screenshots but then he revealed that he'd recorded the entire journey. Yeah, you heard me.
He's got 4 days and 20 hours of leveling footage, all compiled into neat and easy-to-navigate chapters.

Here's part of Joana's record 1 - 60 journey:

For the average player though, you're likely to get
sidetracked and therefore you can expect your leveling time to be longer. Since the burning crusade's been released it should take you around 9
or 10 days playtime to reach level 60 on your first playthrough. Obviously, it depends on a number of things such as your class and if you're
using a guide or not. If you do think you'd like to try a guide then i recommendJoana's Horde leveling
guide.Fear not though! if you're allianceBrian Kopp's guideis just as good.

Free 1-60 Grinding guide

Ok, so here's a free grinding guide for you. It's not
really in depth but it's a start if your too cheap to buy one. Be aware that by using this guide your missing out on:

In game coordinates to show you exactly where to go for each quest and grinding
spot.

Most of these have been confirmed to be good, but in order to prevent
overcrowding in areas I will try to list several different places, all of which should be pretty decent. More often than not, the areas will only
hold one or two people maximum as far as spawn rates go - any more than that and you have too many people and too little mobs to support them.
Unfortunately, because of this, you might end up somewhere that isn't quite as good as you might've hoped, and if that's the case, I apologize in
advance.

The levels are approximate, you may or may not have to supplement grinding for one or two levels in order to move onto the next zones early
on, although most of the later parts deal mostly with areas to grind in. Also, when a level is listed next to a grind area, that means this is
the level at which you can more than likely *start* grinding the mobs. You can probably *stop* grinding them about 4-5 levels past where the
start level is. In fact, it's probably recommended that you do stop 4 levels past them.

Also, keep in mind that this is mostly for Alliance players, as it's the only faction I've played and thus have no experience with Horde lands.
You'll also note the lack of Kalimdor lands up until Feralas/Tanaris. While I'm not saying Ashenvale, Stonetalon Mountains, Thousand Needles or
Desolace are bad places, I honestly have no experience with them either, and these areas that I do list are typically sufficient to take you up
in levels.

Please note that the level listed beside a place, if there is one, is the level recommended to *begin* the place. Each place should typically be
able to last you for 4-5 levels (with the exception of quest areas), whether you have the patience to stay at that one place for that long is
another thing.

Complete the easiest quests in the first area that you go to (Night Elves should visit Darkshore first, Dwarves/Gnomes should visit Loch Modan
first, Humans should visit Westfall first.) Move onto the next zone, and do the same, but this time you can complete more of the zone. Leave the
most difficult, unless you can get a group for them - don't waste too much time on it, though. Move onto the last zone and complete all, or
nearly all of the quests available in that zone. By this time, you should be about level 17-18. Go back to the first zone, and complete the rest
of the quests there.

Typically, my "first zone" is Westfall, in which case you can go back when you are done with both Loch Modan and Darkshore, and finish the Van
Cleef line of quests and be at a good level to run the instance.

Levels 20-22

- Redridge Mountains [Lakeshire, Tower of Azora in Elwynn]

Again, do the easy quests in Redridge, which should take you up to level 21 or 22. Skip the more difficult quests unless you have a group for
them. I'd skip the entire Stonewatch Keep area of quests just simply because that entire area itself is crap.

Start at either Duskwood or Wetlands. This is where "quest stacking" can come in really handy if you want to be efficient. There are many, many
quests that send you to the same areas, and if you get all of the quests at once, you can knock all of them out without having to run back and
forth. Considering Wetlands and Duskwood are fairly bad for having their towns on one side of the map and the quest mobs/areas on the other side,
this saves a lot of time. A lot of these are parts of quest chains, so honestly it's hard to know if you don't have prior knowledge or do a lot
of quest research beforehand - so don't worry about it too much, but try to be as efficient as you can. Once you finish one of the two new areas,
you should be about level 25 and can go finish the harder parts of Redridge, and then finish the last zone.

Note for Stockades : There are 6 quests you can obtain for this instance. Lakeshire, Darkshire, Wetlands, Van Cleef note continuation (Bazil
Thredd), and two from Stormwind.

Start at Stranglethorn Vale. Quest stacking here is also godly, since you don't want to have to run all the way to the northern end of the zone,
do one or two quests and turn them back in at Booty Bay. Rebel Camp's quests are largely independent of the rest, though, so you can do those
first. Then, head to Booty Bay, where you can pick up two main quests for the northern area: Investigate the Camp and the start of the Excelsior
chain, both of which takes you to Nesingwary's Expedition, where you obtain all of the nice happy quests there.

Hillsbrad is only good starting at about level 33, at which point you can actually *do* all of the quests that you could obtain at level 30...
Arathi only has one or two quests that you can actually do right now, but it's listed anyways.

Kurzen Cave has been fixed, which perhaps means that Jungle Fighters and Headshrinkers have as well, so someone test that out please.

37 is where you obtain your next batch of quests from Stranglethorn Vale. Arathi Highlands has fairly decent quests in Faldir's Cove, or if
you're feeling group-friendly, knock out the ones in Stromgarde. Badlands has a lot of nice quests, but you have to actually find them. This is
where supplementing experience by grinding becomes more efficient at times, and at 42-43 you should be closing the last of your Stranglethorn
quests, and be finished with Badlands and Arathi both, as well.

Scarlet Monastery. Black Menace or Sword of Serenity. Nothing more needs to be said - except where to obtain the quest: Desolace.

At this point, you more than likely have a bunch of quests saved up for The Hinterlands - including but not limited to, the quest to gather
Wildkin Feathers (from Rutheran Village), the quest to obtain a snapshot of Gammerita, the quest to obtain Violet Trajan, the last part of
Cortello's Riddle, etc. Feel free to knock them all out at once.

The quests in Blasted Lands all stack on top of each other. Five in total, one for each stat; they give 4700 experience per turn-in, along with
always the chance of obtaining a Draenethyst Sphere for Kumi'sha the Collector with every mob you kill. Un'Goro Crater has the biggest collection
of quests out of all of these zones.

Notes: Blackrock Stronghold is probably the best place to grind for a rogue; however, you do have to get used to how the roamers work. You'll
probably die a few times along the way while learning them. Also, this might likely be another area where they're increasing the armor on the
mobs, but two of the four kinds of orcs that spawn are casters, anyway. Ice Thistle Hills is not the best place to grind for experience, but it's
probably one of the better places to get a nice quiet grind going and also leave with a few backpacks full of Rugged Leather.

Okay -- So this isn't really a "complete" grind area list, because honestly, you only have to sit down and grind at one or two places for a few
levels before you can move onto the next tier of zones, and that's typically what I did. Just sit down and grind at one place, don't move around
everywhere and you'll be out of there in a few hours or days. I've tried my best to list the best quest areas and zones as well for those that
would rather try to quest and not grind their way through the game, too, but that's also somewhat incomplete, especially at later stages since I
don't have much knowledge of the various new quests they implemented in Winterspring and the Plaguelands.

Also remember that grinding is NOT the fastest way to level and by doing
quests in the right order (Use a leveling guide) you can level up to 40% faster than just grinding.